“If I've learned anything in the past six months, it's that life is a fickle little bitch and there's not one damn thing I can do to tame her. It's almost laughable, really.”
― Ashley Herring Blake, quote from Suffer Love
“His eyes said everything. They always did.”
― Ashley Herring Blake, quote from Suffer Love
“The words fall out of my mouth like rain- I felt them coming, smelled them in the air, but there was nothing I could do to stop them.”
― Ashley Herring Blake, quote from Suffer Love
“I watch her duck into the building, a cavern in my chest so huge, I'm sure my next breath will flip me inside out.”
― Ashley Herring Blake, quote from Suffer Love
“If anyone can inspire you to believe in real, honest-to-God love stories again, it's William Shakespeare.”
― Ashley Herring Blake, quote from Suffer Love
“She tilts her head and puts her soft hand on my face, letting her fingertips glide down my neck, to my chest. She flattens her palm there, the heat of her hand searing through my shirt. "You're..." She pauses and I take a breath, my heart thumping madly. "I don't know. It sounds stupid, but... you're like home.”
― Ashley Herring Blake, quote from Suffer Love
“I tell myself that I don't need him. But he's the only person I want right now.”
― Ashley Herring Blake, quote from Suffer Love
“When he finally comes out, I edge down a little in the front seat of my car, torn between wanting to disappear and wanting him to see me so he'll know how much I hate him and love him and every blurry shade of gray in between.”
― Ashley Herring Blake, quote from Suffer Love
“My heart is crushed within me. Here is the truth: You made me love you- your eyes and mouth and voice. You pulled me into your heart. You don't want me there and I don't want to be there, but it's where I will always live.”
― Ashley Herring Blake, quote from Suffer Love
“I wanted you. I wanted us. You made all of this... I don't know. It sounds crazy, but you, in my life- knowing you almost made everything worth it.”
― Ashley Herring Blake, quote from Suffer Love
“Sam and me- star-crossed and still entangled up on a hill overlooking the city. On top of the world. I almost laugh at how ridiculous it is. How silly it is that we found each other, that we grounded each other, that we gave each other a sense of freedom and a home.”
― Ashley Herring Blake, quote from Suffer Love
“This shouldn't make sense," I say.
"What?"
"Us. You and me."
He presses his forehead to mine. "But we do. Maybe it's crazy, yeah, but it makes sense. We make sense.”
― Ashley Herring Blake, quote from Suffer Love
“I'm left with a mouthful of words that wouldn't have made a difference anyway.”
― Ashley Herring Blake, quote from Suffer Love
“Just because you're scared to like someone doesn't make the like go away.”
― Ashley Herring Blake, quote from Suffer Love
“He leans forward and gives me a lopsided grin. "Everything about you is unexpected.”
― Ashley Herring Blake, quote from Suffer Love
“I guess the world really does end with a whimper, he says after a moment. "A whole lot of quiet, a million things left unsaid until it's too late to say them.”
― Ashley Herring Blake, quote from Suffer Love
“Dashed if I don't think he's begun to get queer in his attic! Well, what I mean is, hubble-bubble! I don't set up as one of these clever coves, but I've got more sense in my knowledge-box than to say such an addle-brained thing as that! Seems to me it don't make a ha'porth of difference whether you keep the dashed mill, or whether you don't, because that's where all your gingerbread came from, whichever way you look at it. And don't you tell me it's repugnant to him to have you coming down with the derbies, because all I've got to say to that is, Gammon!”
― Georgette Heyer, quote from The Unknown Ajax
“You seem to have an aversion to the mall.”
His answer to that was, “Do I have a dick?”
I felt my lips curl up and I replied , “Yes, baby. You have a dick.”
“Then, yeah. I got an aversion to the mall.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Rock Chick Revolution
“I squint. “Married?” Lily nods enthusiastically. “At the Drive-Through Wedding Chapel. We took some great pictures. And now I’m Mrs. Billy Warren.” Nope, still can’t wrap my head around it. “Married? Really?” Warren’s expression goes from sappy to annoyed. “Yeah, Long Duck Fuckin’ Dong—married. What’s your problem?”
― Emma Chase, quote from Tied
“The Fae book was definitely filled with the same stories as hers, but this one was filled with picture after picture of Jared. She couldn’t help but flip backward a few pages and see magical images come to life: of Jared defending her in an alley. Sitting in art class with Mina, spinning on the pottery wheel. There was another one of Jared by the lake, teaching her to fight. Jared and her in the storage room, laughing, before their tickling fight. She flipped forward and saw the last page filled with a motion-captured image of Jared and her sharing a kiss.”
― Chanda Hahn, quote from Fable
“Why does any human want anyone? My body recognises you as something that’s good for me. My mind recognises you as someone who’s right for me, and my soul recognises you as someone who is meant for me.”
― Tillie Cole, quote from Sweet Home
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